A NORTH ITALIAN IVORY-INLAID EBONY TABLE-CABINET
ATTRIBUTED TO GIOVANNI BATTISTA GATTI, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
A NORTH ITALIAN IVORY-INLAID EBONY TABLE-CABINET ATTRIBUTED TO GIOVANNI BATTISTA GATTI, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY The rectangular top surmounted by a three-quarter gallery carved with anthemia and centred by griffins flanking an ivory plaquette to front and back engraved with a coat-of-arms and the motto ' MEMOR ET FIDELIS ', the two cupboard doors decorated with première-partie arabesque foliage and mythological and pastoral scenes within malachite and lapis luzuli beads and abalone-set frames, the reverse of the doors similarly decorated with herms and medallions, the interior with fifteen drawers each with marquetry fronts, the pilastered angles and sides with conforming decoration, the back with contre-partie panels, on a moulded fixed base 28 in. (71 cm.) high; 32½ in. (82.5 cm.) wide; 14½ in. (47 cm.) deep
A NORTH ITALIAN IVORY-INLAID EBONY TABLE-CABINET
ATTRIBUTED TO GIOVANNI BATTISTA GATTI, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
A NORTH ITALIAN IVORY-INLAID EBONY TABLE-CABINET ATTRIBUTED TO GIOVANNI BATTISTA GATTI, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY The rectangular top surmounted by a three-quarter gallery carved with anthemia and centred by griffins flanking an ivory plaquette to front and back engraved with a coat-of-arms and the motto ' MEMOR ET FIDELIS ', the two cupboard doors decorated with première-partie arabesque foliage and mythological and pastoral scenes within malachite and lapis luzuli beads and abalone-set frames, the reverse of the doors similarly decorated with herms and medallions, the interior with fifteen drawers each with marquetry fronts, the pilastered angles and sides with conforming decoration, the back with contre-partie panels, on a moulded fixed base 28 in. (71 cm.) high; 32½ in. (82.5 cm.) wide; 14½ in. (47 cm.) deep
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